{"product_id":"the-long-tomorrow-how-advances-in-evolutionary-biology-can-help-us-postpone-aging-hardcover","title":"The Long Tomorrow: How Advances in Evolutionary Biology Can Help Us Postpone Aging - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael R. Rose\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe conquest of aging is now within our grasp. It hasn't arrived yet, writes Michael R. Rose, but a scientific juggernaut has started rolling and is picking up speed. A long tomorrow is coming.\u003cbr\u003e In \u003cem\u003eThe Long Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e, Rose offers us a delightfully written account of the modern science of aging, spiced with intriguing stories of his own career and leavened with the author's engaging sense of humor and rare ability to make contemporary research understandable to nonscientists. The book\u003cbr\u003eranges from Rose's first experiments while a graduate student--counting a million fruit fly eggs, which took 3,000 hours over the course of a year--to some of his key scientific discoveries. We see how some of his earliest experiments helped demonstrate that \"the force of natural selection\" was key\u003cbr\u003eto understanding the aging process--a major breakthrough. Rose describes how he created the well-known Methuselah Flies, fruit flies that live far longer than average. Equally important, Rose surveys the entire field, offering colorful portraits of many leading scientists and shedding light on\u003cbr\u003eresearch findings from around the world. We learn that rodents given fifteen to forty percent fewer calories live about that much longer, and that volunteers in Biosphere II, who lived on reduced caloric intake for two years, all had improved vital signs. Perhaps most interesting, we discover that\u003cbr\u003eaging hits a plateau and stops. \u003cbr\u003e Popular accounts of Rose's work have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker, Time\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, and \u003cem\u003eScientific American\u003c\/em\u003e, but \u003cem\u003eThe Long Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e is the first full account of this exciting new science written for the general reader. \u003cbr\u003e\"Among his peers, Rose is considered a brilliantly innovative scientist, who has almost single-handedly brought the evolutionary theory of aging from an abstract notion to one of the most exciting topics in science.\"--Malcolm Gladwell, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMichael R. Rose\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of California at Irvine and is Director of the University of California Intercampus Research Program on Experimental Evolution.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.78 x 9.36 x 6.64 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 15, 2005\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52759477682483,"sku":"9780195179392","price":77.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/R2luY3lxeXpoZ0plVFZXTUJNMmFwdz09.webp?v=1764460654","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-long-tomorrow-how-advances-in-evolutionary-biology-can-help-us-postpone-aging-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}